House to house searches

[captdave77]

Hypothetical situation:

An unidentified man has kidnapped a 7 year old girl. He informs police, via a burn phone, that he is going to kill her in 3 hours. The only location information they have is the single cell-tower the call was originated from. There options are to do nothing or search every home within range of that tower to try and rescue the girl in time. Do you
a. Refuse entry to search, thus causing the already limited resources and time to be additionally depleted as they must now try and determine if you are in fact the man who is threatening to kill the girl, possible causing them to not find her in time?
or
b. Allow them to quickly run through your home so they can continue their search?

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No gorilla tactics needed and a camera recording from your angle would not show what the officer saw, only what you saw.

If I know the little girl is not in my home, I am doing her a favor by saving the officers' valuable time.

 

[Jester7]

I would, under no circumstance, allow my home to be searched without cause.

Exactly!

 

[jlcnuke]

If I know my home is secure and I know my home better than anyone, why should I allow a search?

What about your denial of a search would be different if you were the kidnapper? Oh yeah, nothing. Now they would lose time trying to determine if you were the suspect simply because you chose to exercise your rights under every circumstance.

In my hypithetical situation the girl is found 2minutes before the deadline and lives. Only if they don't waste more than 2 minutes determining if other indivuduals are the person they are looking for.

 

[Laufen]

If I know the little girl is not in my home, I am doing her a favor by saving the officers' valuable time.

Yep. I would offer to help search as well.

 

[captdave77]

How would they know you had any unless you told em. Nothing to see here, move along.

If they forced their way into my house, they would find a BB gun or two.

 

[jlcnuke]

In this case, what will be interesting is.... if the cops searching the houses notice anything (like firearms) did they make notes about the location... for followup later? Hmmmm. They violated a lot of rights yesterday. Just sayin'

There were no violations of rights of homeowners that I have heard of. Can you point any out?

 

[strider12]

If they forced their way into my house, they would find a BB gun or two.

That's funny, The only visible firearm in the home for us is a Red Rider BB gun.

 

[captdave77]

What about your denial of a search would be different if you were the kidnapper? Oh yeah, nothing. Jow they would lose time trying to determine if you were the suspect simply because you chose to exercise your rights under every circumstance.

In my hypithetical situation the girl is found 2minutes before the deadline and lives. Only if they don't waste more than 2 minutes determining if other indivuduals are the person they are looking for.

There is always and emergency and if we allow that to be the standard, The Constitution becomes worthless.

 

[Laufen]

There were no violations of rights of homeowners that I have heard of. Can you point any out?

I'm guessing that most people responded in a manner similar to opinions expressed on this forum. Many don't know their rights, and most are willing to throw them out the window when asked by a nice man with a badge and a gun.

 

[captdave77]

There were no violations of rights of homeowners that I have heard of. Can you point any out?

1. The dust has not settled yet.
2. Because there aren't any reported does not mean there wasn't the potential for it.